Handcoloured wood engraving, 100 x 75mm; Very good.Charming French hand-coloured woodcut depicting a man and woman of "New Holland". It was most likely printed as part of a series of costume plates, and may be the same as a similarly-sized woodcut of the...

Philadelphia: (Dobelbower, Key and Simpson), 1796. Engraved portrait, 155 x 100 mm.Oval engraved portrait of Cook in profile.Originally issued in The World Displayed, or A Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels Selected and Compiled from the Writers of all Nations by Smart, Goldsmith & Johnson.

Philadelphia: circa 1798. Engraving on laid paper by Scot & Allardice, 65 x 130 mm.Robert Scot and Samuel Allardice worked together in Philadelphia as printers and engravers, Francis Shallus who is credited with doing all 41 plates of the 1818 Philadelphia edition of The Voyages of Captain Cook, worked...

Paris: Langlume, 1840. Single sheet measuring 305 x 222 mm., wove paper, lithograph.Confronting image of a Port Jackson Aborigine, lithographed after a sketch by Jacques Arago, official artist of the expedition commanded by Louis de Freycinet.This portrait is stylistically similar to the work of Arago's predecessor Nicolas Petit, who...

Hand-coloured engraving, 240 x 320 mm (plate size). small paper repair at bottom margin else very good condition.A famous portrait of a man and woman of the Caroline islands, depicted in high neoclassical style. This engraving is derived...

An unexplained proto-Australia: a single southern continent for the first time

Copper-engraved double-hemisphere world map, 335 x 545 mm.; mounted.A very rare sixteenth century map depicting an island roughly in the position of Australia. Montanus shows for the first time on a world map a....

Watercolour on paper, 35.5 x 54 cms. mounted and framed; signed lower right.Julian Rossi Ashton (1851-1942) had exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London before emigrating to Australia in 1878. He first lived in Melbourne for five years before moving...

Watercolour, 215 x 290 mm; ink caption at lower right; in mount.An important original watercolour by the English artist and architect Edward Ashworth who travelled through Macau and Hong Kong in the 1840s. The T'ou T'ei Temple in Patane...

Engraved map, 345 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring.An attractive children's educational map of Australia, Asia and the east coast of Africa.The map is based on the work of the Abbé Gaultier, an educationalist originally from Piedmont, who had...

London: John Harris, 1832. Engraved map, 315 x 432 mm. (image size), original hand-colouring.An attractive children's educational map of the WorldThe map is based on the work of the Abbé Gaultier, an educationalist originally from Piedmont, who had settled in France in 1780 and later fled the revolution to...

Mezzotint portrait, 510 x 370 mm.; a very good impression, mounted and framed.In this fine mezzotint Joseph Banks " the father of Australia" is shown sitting confidently at his desk, surrounded by the accoutrements...

Stipple-engraved portrait, 204 x 120 mm.Fine head-and-shoulders portrait of Sir Joseph Banks by Ambrose Tardieu. Banks is shown wearing the star and garter' the comments that the image was based on the painting by Sir Thomas Phillips, and the borrowing...

Stippled engraving, 98 x 75 mm.A very good portrait of Barrington, within an octagonal border. George Barrington was convicted of felonry and transported with the Third Fleet in 1791. Soon after his arrival in Sydney Cove, Barrington's "irreproachable conduct" led...

Stipple engraving, 290 x 210 mm.,An uncommon portrait of Cook's great first biographer, stipple-engraved by the great artist Bartolozzi, famous for his role in producing many of the engravings relating to Cook's third voyage, including a portrait...

Engraved portrait, 265 x 200 mm.Fine portrait of Cook after William Hodges. This oval head-and-shoulders portrait of the navigator as a young man was commissioned from the engraver Basire to be used as the frontispiece of the official account of...

Pencil sketch, 135 x 195 mm.; laid down on the original blue-paper mount, signed on the lower left of the mount and captioned.A striking pencil sketch by the Baudin voyage artist Milbert, done in the south-west of...